Short answer: No. Longer answer: Ratings were even worse for the two shows compared to ratings of their last airings in their regular spots. For Brookly Nine-Nine, whose ratings are already on the very low side, that’s not good news.

First of all, while the ratings for New Girl after the Super Bowl were decent, with 26 million viewers, the overall viewers for Brooklyn Nine-Nine (15 million) were the lowest recorded ratings for a Super Bowl lead-out program since local programming and a new Perry Mason episode followed the Super Bowl in 1975.

That’s not good.

Worse still, Brooklyn Nine-Nine in its new time slot with New Girl as its lead-in program, only managed 3.2 million viewers and a 1.4 ratings (that’s before DVR is accounted for, and for a show like Brooklyn Nine-Nine, DVR viewership will be substantial). The problem is, that’s 26 percent down from its last regular airing in the 8:30 slot, although the one bright note is that it was up slightly over the last airing of The Mindy Project in the same time slot.

New Girl, meanwhile, had 3.5 million viewers and a 1.6, down 16 percent from its most recent Tuesday airing. Again, however, New Girl typically adds 70-90 percent more viewers once DVR viewership is accounted for (while Brooklyn Nine-Nine adds around 50 percent).

In other words, overnight ratings for neither show were particularly good and the Super Bowl didn’t help them at all, but both are fairly popular shows on DVR, and with the competition from the Biggest Loser finale, maybe DVR viewership will bounce even higher.

So, there is a silver lining, and while it doesn’t deserve champagne, it does at least deserve $8 wine drink from the finest vineyards in Arkansas.

I wasn’t willing to give it a chance initially. BUT it’s a great show. The writing keeps getting better and better and they don’t overuse Samberg as an Adam Sandler type. Joe Lo Truglio is a great character…

People like xinurmouth make me sad. Trolling your way into a brooklyn nine nine tread to express your opinion on an actor your don’t like is one thing, but poorly-writing your way into judging a show you’ve not even seen simply based on actor’s former work is the definition of being a cunt. Therefore you are a troll cunt.

Jesus Christ you and pat_bateman should go buttfuck each other in a shed in Sochi. The “trolls” on this site are aggravating not because they stir the pot so, but because they’re SO fucking bad at what they try to do.
Just awful. Take a lap. And just because someone doesn’t agree with your stance that B99 is not funny does not automatically make them a “bunch of sandberg fans hahaha.”

Don’t care about New Girl, will never be able to bring myself to care about New Girl.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine, however, is excellent. If Fox screws the show just like they screwed (insert long list of shows that Fox canceled after a depressingly short run), my heart will be broken into a bunch of sad little pieces.

Maybe some people didn’t tune in because they assumed it’d be a rerun, rather than there being two episodes in as many days? And/or maybe the timeslot shift was a factor as well? They missed a great one, at any rate. That clock at the end, “This isn’t ours.” Laughed hard.

The rating system is such bullshit. I have absolutely zero way to fix it, but I watch almost nothing live and all of it on Hulu or somewhere else online so basically according to Nielsen I watch zero shows even though I watch 10-12 weekly, it makes no sense.

I think one important item this article forgets to note is how terrible the Super Bowl game was. Not a lot of people are going to sit through a 40+ point slaughter just to watch the shows after. Also, Prince? Really? This is the most current and popular star New Girl could get? Half of their target audience doesn’t know who he is.